Democracies must have equilibrium... and the entanglement of politics and information must be minimized. — Romano Prodi Copy Share Image
Israel is one of the greatest and most modern democracies on the planet. — Matteo Salvini Copy Share Image
“In modern democracies, one is always too few and two are always too many” — Idiotneil Copy Share Image
Democracies have to be careful that they do not become so process-driven. — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
Iraq is just a symbol of the attitude of western democracies to the rest of the world. — Harold Pinter Copy Share Image
Democracies do not go to war. War is not our expression of thought. — Asif Ali Zardari Copy Share Image
Jealousy is a virtue of democracies which preserves them from tyrants. — Anatole France Copy Share Image
In democracies, nothing is more great or more brilliant than commerce: it attracts the attention of the public, and fills the imagination… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
As the 20th century ended, there were around 120 democracies in the world - and I can assure you more are on… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
“Democracies don't even withstand formally half educated citizens. Courtesy, respect, and sensibility don't tend to ethical sense. Nature nurtures, if compared to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The purpose cannot be creating self-styled democracies, but rather encouraging steps that are conducive to establishing democratic rule at universal standards. Obviously,… — Recep Tayyip Erdogan Copy Share Image
“Since the turn of the millennium, and particularly over the last decade, no fewer than twenty-five democracies have failed around the world,… — Edward Luce Copy Share Image
The plain Canadian fact is that relative to other Western democracies, the U.S. in particular, there isn't much difference between our two… — Neil Macdonald Copy Share Image
“Globally, democracies have also acted in ways that suggest an outright renunciation of their principles at home.” — Nayef Al-Rodhan Copy Share Image
Participatory democracies. Open economies. Web-based communication. All American innovations to the great conundrums of the globe. — Chris Murphy Copy Share Image
Western democracies exalt the ideal of social equality, but our economic system arguably emerged from 16th-century Calvinism, a religion whose members believed… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
You start to learn that democracies don't work when it comes to artistic expression. You learn that if you don't handle your… — Omar Rodriguez-Lopez Copy Share Image
I am kind of a sucker for democracy, so I do think that what kinds of citizens we have in our societies… — Sheila Jasanoff Copy Share Image
Dictators can fix up their entire families in good jobs, in or around government, and often do. In democracies, such a practice… — Jimmy Reid Copy Share Image
We know that dismantling old oppressive regimes is a great deal faster and easier than building new flourishing democracies. Chinggis Khaan once… — Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj Copy Share Image
D-Day represents the greatest achievement of the american people and system in the 20th century. It was the pivot point of the… — Stephen Ambrose Copy Share Image
How can we be enemies when there is so much that pulls us together? But in general I found that I had… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
The principles governing Western democracies, of which Israel rightly considers itself a part, are based on the assurance that everyone has a… — Edgar Bronfman, Sr Copy Share Image
The world has got more democracies than ever, and human rights are high on almost every country's agenda. Still, corruption and oppression… — Anna Lindh Copy Share Image
“Democracies, as we know, are prone to every error from incompetence and corruption to misguided fetishes and gridlock. Therefore, it is astonishing,… — Madeleine K. Albright Copy Share Image
With unfailing consistency, U.S. intervention has been on the side of the rich and powerful of various nations at the expense of… — Michael Parenti Copy Share Image
Hence it is that such democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security… — James Madison Copy Share Image
And what has come to prevail in democracies is the very reverse of beneficial, in those, that is, which are regarded as… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
One of the things that I realized when I left office was that in the 1990's citizens across the world applied more… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
Rulers like Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser started subsidizing bread as a way to buy loyalty, or at least obedience, and this system… — Annia Ciezadlo Copy Share Image
“in times of peace and stability, democracies tended to accumulate ever-increasing numbers of interest groups. Instead of pursuing wealth-creating economic activities, these… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The tragedy of the modern democracies is that they have not yet succeeded in realizing democracy. — Jacques Maritain Copy Share Image
“This is how we tend to think of democracies dying: at the hands of men with guns.” — Steven Levitsky Copy Share Image
Democracies don't prepare well for things that have never happened before. — Richard A. Clarke Copy Share Image
I would like to see capital punishment suppressed in all democracies. — Lionel Jospin Copy Share Image
The fight against terror is a common imperative for democracies and must become so for all nations. — Lionel Jospin Copy Share Image
When democracies don't deliver growth, alternatives seem more attractive. — Jens Martin Skibsted Copy Share Image
In every well-governed state wealth is a sacred thing; in democracies it is the only sacred thing. — Anatole France Copy Share Image
